Acacia enterocarpa
Acacia enterocarpa, commonly known as jumping jack wattle, is a species of flowering plant in the family Fabaceae and is endemic to the south of continental Australia. It is a dense, spreading shrub, with ribbed, reddish brown branchlets, more or less sessile straight to shallowly curved phyllodes, spherical heads of bright yellow flowers, and wavy, leathery pods.
Description
Acacia enterocarpa is a dense, spreading shrub that typically grows to a height up to and has ribbed, reddish brown branchlets. The phyllodes are more or less sessile, straight to shallowly curved, more or less terete to compressed, long, wide, sharply pointed with 10 to 12 raised, warty veins. The flowers are borne in up to four spherical heads in axils on peduncles long. Each head is in diameter with about 20 bright yellow flowers. Flowering occurs from July to September, and the pods are wavy, up to about long, wide, brown and leathery. The seeds are oblong to elliptic, about long, dull, dark brown to black with an aril on the end.Taxonomy
Acacia enterocarpa was first formally described in 1957 by the botanist Raymond Vaughan Smith in The Victorian Naturalist from a specimen collected about west of Diapur in 1950.The specific epithet is derived from the Greek words entero meaning 'intestines' and "karpos" meaning 'fruit', in reference to the shape of the seed pod.
Both A. colletioides and A. nyssophylla are closely related to A. enterocarpa.